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After Q3, and I expect I'll be WELL into 2023 before I can get one. My own personal bet is that I'm not going to get one before the Steam Deck 2 is announced
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I preordered one like 10 days ago and i'm After Q3 fwiw
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Mar 8, 2022 00:45
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The Q3 window seems pretty large if it's ranging from 30 minutes after orders went live to a few days later. I didn't order until 4 or 5 hours after orders went live, and yep, Q3.
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Mar 8, 2022 00:45
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In the US, how long did it take for users to get their deck after the first wave?
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Mar 8, 2022 02:36
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Still in Q2, glad to not get bumped. I also got the midrange option which (extremely anecdotally) seems to be the least popular, on account of I got hefty microsd cards and mostly play indie poo poo.
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Mar 8, 2022 04:26
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Big firmware update today apparently, it even warns you that the update will look weird.
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Mar 8, 2022 05:07
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I was worried to check my steam deck reservation but luckily it’s still Q2. 512 ordered like 5 min after opening due to server issues.
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Mar 8, 2022 19:04
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MarcusSA posted:I was worried to check my steam deck reservation but luckily it’s still Q2.
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Mar 8, 2022 19:07
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JazzFlight posted:LOL same. Crazy how just a few seconds here or there put us in the Q2 bracket. I was mashing the hell out of that pre-order button right at launch. I’d love to know the size of the Q1 batch. I’m betting it is incredibly small
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Mar 8, 2022 19:14
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MarcusSA posted:I’d love to know the size of the Q1 batch. I’m betting it is incredibly small they said they'd be going from tens of thousands in Q1 to hundreds of thousands in Q2 and if they're, say, shipping out 20k a week, then yeah, Q2 would be 240-260k compared to 80k for Q1
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Mar 8, 2022 19:17
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I wonder if you could make a rough guess at weekly shipment sizes by looking at the Steam Deck's relative position on the top sellers chart on store.steampowered.com.
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Mar 8, 2022 19:26
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early on, you could tell your direct position in queue and therefore at least how many must have been sold through the steam website's api or whatever but they changed it after people noticed
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Mar 8, 2022 19:35
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Aside from checking each game through Steam's store pages, I wish there was an easy way to know if games in cheap third-party bundles were Steam Deck compatible because there have been some great deals recently. I guess I could also check ProtonDB in case the game is still untested on Deck, but that's not necessarily guaranteed.
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Mar 8, 2022 19:44
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Will Valve start adding the Steam Deck to it's Hardware Surveys? I guess maybe that would be one way to check to see how many are in the wild if they do?
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sigher posted:Will Valve start adding the Steam Deck to it's Hardware Surveys? I guess maybe that would be one way to check to see how many are in the wild if they do? Honestly Steam knows if it's on a Deck, that probably just gets included in their telemetry.
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Mar 8, 2022 21:29
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Kwolok posted:In the US, how long did it take for users to get their deck after the first wave? I confirmed mine on the 25th of February and it came today.
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Mar 8, 2022 21:54
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Given that its got a unique processor, everything that collects such hw info knows.
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Mar 8, 2022 21:54
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So 2 days after paying for the Steam Deck, I've gotten the tracking information from Valve. Sadly not coming up on the tracker yet, but there might be a chance of getting it later this week or early next week.
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Mar 9, 2022 14:07
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BTW, obviously it's for a good cause, too, but if you want like a bazillion games for your new Steam Deck, consider getting in on this bundle: https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine There's a guide on YouTube for setting up itch.io games, plus a lot of them have Linux ports anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuQGjUuw8_A
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Mar 9, 2022 14:47
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PowerBeard posted:So 2 days after paying for the Steam Deck, I've gotten the tracking information from Valve. Did they email you this, or is it in your Steam profile somewhere? I haven’t gotten my shipping notification yet.
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JazzFlight posted:BTW, obviously it's for a good cause, too, but if you want like a bazillion games for your new Steam Deck, consider getting in on this bundle: What are some highlights from the bundle? I dunno what's hot garbage and not but so far I'm at least downloading these: Superhot Baba is you Celeste Crosscode
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Mar 9, 2022 15:06
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SkateBIRD. You’re a bird. That skates.
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There's a thread where people have been sharing opinions on games from this and the previous bundles: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3926987
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Suburban Dad posted:What are some highlights from the bundle? Lucifer Within Us is a pretty unique and very stylish mystery/detective type game.
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Mar 9, 2022 15:46
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Soul Glo posted:Did they email you this, or is it in your Steam profile somewhere? I haven’t gotten my shipping notification yet. Ended up getting a shipping notification in email today and it linked to my Steam Account Details fwiw. This just means they've printed the label but it should probably get picked up by FedEx today and then I'll be able to see if it's two day or three day. Probably will be three day because next Monday is the only day I'll be out of the house for the next two weeks 
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Mar 9, 2022 17:06
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Anyone in the UK received theirs yet? I'm wondering how fast UK shipping is. Mostly because we now have to go into the office on Thursdays and I'm worried that it could show up on a day I'm not in. Any other day I'm going to be home.
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For US, seems to ship out of Chicago. It was a few days for me between paying and getting a shipping confirm.
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Suburban Dad posted:What are some highlights from the bundle? I dunno what's hot garbage and not but so far I'm at least downloading these: Those are just solid, high quality games. If you want decent games that aren't necessarily in the zeitgeist, there's Xenogunner (Treasure-style game), Inmost (spooky platformer), Pipe Push Paradise (puzzle), Sagebrush (walking sim), Grapple Force Rena (platformer), Shipwreck (zelda-like), forma.8 (metroidvania), double cross (platformer) I'd check to see if they have native linux ports, then check the proton compatibility site, because there's no way a lot of these have been tested by Valve yet (Valve's pretty much starting from top to bottom on popularity, and recent to least recent). Or you can just try playing 'em and see if they run 
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Soul Glo posted:Ended up getting a shipping notification in email today and it linked to my Steam Account Details fwiw. This just means they've printed the label but it should probably get picked up by FedEx today and then I'll be able to see if it's two day or three day. Yeah, it was email and account link as you said. It has updated to say it is leaving the Netherlands... gently caress At the moment, we have two storm warnings coming in back to back, so good luck to any transport or shipping not getting delayed.
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My shipping information updated, looks like it is due to get here on Friday, which means they're sending them out in the US as two-day shipping, so that's nice. Not gonna turn the thread into my personal shipping update center, but I had no idea how Valve was sending these out, so just tryna inform how they're doing it. Also checking Reddit it looks like Valve isn't requiring signatures on these, which is kind of odd because FedEx is supposed to have Direct Signature Required on anything over $500. I guess Valve doesn't want these things sitting in shipping centers or being sent back to them, so, be prepared for yours to be left on your porch. Soul Glo fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mine won't get here till tuesday :sob:
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They're probably using the cheapest shipping option, so it'll get to you faster if you're close to a large distribution center.
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So hilariously, elden ring when played on the deck (or on steamOS) eliminates the performance stutter it otherwise has.
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If Steams database has cached shaders for your GPU/driver combo, yeah That's a given on the homogenous Steam Deck hardware but YMMV on other hardware
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repiv posted:If Steams database has cached shaders for your GPU/driver combo, yeah Steam caches the high-level pipeline objects, when you install a game it downloads the shaders first and starts compiling them for your GPU while it downloads the actual game.
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Oh that's even better Even better still would be if Fromsoft compiled their shaders ahead of time like you're supposed to, but Fromsoft gonna Fromsoft
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repiv posted:Oh that's even better
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By compile ahead of time I mean compile at runtime but before the shader is required, which is how any competent VK/DX12 renderer works Elden Ring just sits on its rear end until the first time the shader is needed, then panics and compiles it right there and then causing the stutters
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Oh, yeah, that would be nice. Although it takes literally like 30-45 minutes before I can play Call of Duty the first time I start it because of compiling shaders so I can see why FROM would want to avoid that scenario as well. Is it definitively confirmed that shader compilation is the cause of the stutters? I had to refund it on Steam because it was unplayable, and it was stuttering in the same spot every time for like 5-6 seconds at a time, and you would think that it would have the shaders used in that area cached by the fourth or fifth time. edit: to be clear I don't have a Steam Deck, but was getting the stuttering issues on my PC. I guess it could have been different from the Steam Deck stutter issues.
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This shader thing makes me wonder if all non-Steam games will have possible performance issues. Like, I was happy it looked like I could run my free Epic store (or other company's) games on the Steam Deck, but annoyingly they won't have the same support that native Steam versions will have.
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